About two months ago, Mellel presented a curious and frustrating problem. When I type (in English) the direction is fine for reading—except for using punctuation. When I enter period, comma, etc. normally it should show up at the end of the sentence (which it has done for 8 years). However, with latest upgrade, the punctuation mark shows on the left side, and if I add another, it is added there (left-aligned, but also left direction). I have tried every possible combination with other templates, and nothing solves this. Basically Mellel is unusable to me

which languages are you using and how are they defined?
-- in file/document setup what is the binding direction?
-- in the character palette/options, which script are you using? which direction has been set?

which font(s) are involved?
-- I hope not Times New Roman which is notoriously buggy in some versions.

If you could send a short example, that might help us identify the problem.

But I spent a little time today and thought through this. I found the problem.

In the character palette, I had "Body" and in lower right corner of the character attributes page under "Open Type," at some point that was changed to Hebrew and direction was set for right-to-left. I don't remember doing it. But once I switched to English and set "Default" for direction, the problem disappeared.